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Solomon: Department Double Standard

By Brian Solomon | February 14, 2011

You're interviewing two Dartmouth seniors for a highly selective post-graduation job. Student A has a stellar academic record: a double major in theater and Arabic with a 3.87 major grade point average.

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Short Answer

By The Dartmouth Opinion Staff | February 13, 2011

Friday's Verbum Ultimum discussed why it is important for students to contribute to the dean of the College search process.

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Poddar: The Tyranny of Choice

By Keshav Poddar | February 13, 2011

Recently, Jonathan Pedde argued that the dismal state of American public education can only be remedied by the universal institution of school choice programs ("Still Waiting for Choice," Feb.

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The Futility of Faking

By Lauren Rosenbaum | February 10, 2011

Growing up I never felt pressured by my parents to excel in school or athletics as is the case for many Dartmouth students, my sense of discipline was self-imposed.

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VERBUM ULTIMUM: Diverse Discussions

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | February 10, 2011

This Monday, the living room of Cutter-Shabazz Hall became the site of a lively, freewheeling discussion between students and College President Jim Yong Kim on the topics of racial and socioeconomic diversity at Dartmouth ("Kim reacts to student criticism of diversity," Feb.

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Kantaria: Duty Calls

By Suril Kantaria | February 9, 2011

Former College President John Sloan Dickey said, "The world's troubles are your troubles and there is nothing wrong in the world that better human beings cannot fix." Recently, fellow columnist Charles Clark '11 ("Tilting at the World's Troubles," Jan.

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Colaneri: A Detour Off Wall Street

By Natalie Colaneri | February 9, 2011

With graduation not far on the horizon, upperclassmen are becoming increasingly worried about life after Dartmouth.

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Chemplavil: Tainted Tolerance

By Sapna Chemplavil | February 8, 2011

In an article titled "Social Scientist Sees Bias Within" in this Monday's New York Times, John Tierney discussed the biases that keep moral conservatives out of the field of social psychology.

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Buntz: Overhearing the Abyss

By Sam Buntz | February 8, 2011

My favorite part of The Dartmouth aside from the opinion page, of course is the overheards. The overheards are ultimately more than just a fun snapshot of collegiate excesses and buffoonery although they are, undoubtedly, that too.

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Blair: Widening our Worldviews

By Peter Blair | February 7, 2011

As someone with an interest in the Middle Ages, I am again taking some courses this term that relate to that era.

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Kornberg: Senate Stagnation

By Josh Kornberg | February 7, 2011

Two weeks ago I sat in the United States Senate gallery to watch Chris Coons, D-Del., make his first speech as a member of the "world's greatest deliberative body." No one else aside from the pages, Cloakroom staff, stenographer and Presiding Officer (who was chatting on his Blackberry the whole time) witnessed it.

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Short Answer

By The Dartmouth Opinion Staff | February 6, 2011

Friday's Verbum Ultimum advocated building physical structures for all sororities as a meaningful step towards improving campus gender relations.

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Clark: What's Work Worth?

By Charles Clark | February 6, 2011

Dartmouth has shed a lot of its WASPiness in recent decades. By my calculations (and by "calculations," I mean flipping through a couple yearbooks from the 1950s), the student body is roughly 50 percent less white and Anglo-Saxon than it was 60 years ago.

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A Space of Their Own

By The Dartmouth Editorial Board | February 3, 2011

Last Spring, discussions at the College's termly Board of Trustees meeting centered overwhelmingly around budgetary issues.

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A Call for Intellectuals

By Yoo Jung Kim | February 3, 2011

In my sophomore year of high school, I was an angry girl with access to a word processor a dangerous combination.

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Rasheed: Alliances with Autocrats

By Raza Rasheed | February 2, 2011

Since the beginning of the recent popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, debate has raged over the role that the United States should play in shaping these movements and the power transitions that they now seem likely to provoke.

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Wang: Credit Where It's Due

By Ethan Wang | February 2, 2011

Here at Dartmouth, we do not discriminate. Not against people, and certainly not against courses. I have a required x-hour for my organic chemistry class and a six hour lab every week where we labor over reactions until the cows come home.

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Cultivating Creativity

By Junine So | February 1, 2011

Last week, Sapna Chemplavil rightly pointed out that The Wall Street Journal had blatantly sensationalized Amy Chua's essay, "Why Asian Mothers Are Superior," by strategically choosing an excerpt and title that wasn't in line with the rest of Chua's memoir ("Polarizing Parenting," Jan.

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Talamo: The "T" Word

By Chris Talamo | February 1, 2011

It's a new year, meaning that while Americans are working out what their taxes are, a plethora of government offices are busy trying to make estimates of budget figures for both 2010 and 2011.

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Solomon: The 'Write' Stuff

By Brian Solomon | January 31, 2011

I've always thought it was odd that Dartmouth requires that its students can swim 50 yards before graduation, but not that they can write a coherent analytical essay of a few pages or more.